Inside Sales / Appointment-Setter Style Caller — Small Local Businesses, US Hours

We build free preview websites for local businesses using their public Google listing, mail the owner a postcard showing the site we already made for them, and then call about a week later to make sure they saw it. Your job is that call. This is NOT a cold list and it is NOT a hard sell. Every person you dial has already received a physical postcard from us with a picture of their own website on it. You're following up on mail they already have. There is nothing to close on the phone — the entire goal of the call is to get the owner to go to our website and type in their phone number and a 3-digit code so they can see the site we built them. It's free to look. Whether they ever pay us is a separate, later, entirely optional step. (We keep the company name off the public posting — we'll share it, and show you the product, as soon as we're talking.) WHAT YOU'LL DO - Log into our own calling portal (we provide it — no dialer of your own needed) - Click "Next business" — the system hands you one business at a time with a script already personalized to that business (their name, their Google rating, their city, their code) - Click to dial. Talk to the owner. - Where you can, walk the owner to the site while they're still on the phone with you - Log the outcome and a short note (one tap + one sentence) - Repeat. WHAT WE NEED - Clear, natural, neutral American-English phone voice; comfortable talking to US small-business owners (plumbers, salons, restaurants, auto shops, dentists) - 4+ hours per day of overlap with US business hours (we'll agree on a time zone/window) - Quiet room, wired internet (10 Mbps+), a real USB or wired headset with a boom mic — no laptop speakerphone, no Bluetooth earbuds, no background noise, no other agents audible - A modern computer + Chrome (calls run in the browser) - Comfortable being coached WHAT WILL GET YOU HIRED - Experience with warm follow-up, appointment setting, or inside sales to small US businesses - You sound like a person, not a script. We'd rather you be 20 seconds slower and human. - You handle "no" gracefully and move on. About 1 in 3 people will not be interested and that's a completely fine outcome — we log it and never contact them again. WHAT WILL NOT - High-volume power-dialer / auto-dialer call center background with no consultative experience - Agencies bidding on behalf of a rotating team of unnamed agents (we hire named individuals) RULES THAT ARE NOT NEGOTIABLE - If anyone asks to be removed, you say yes immediately, log it, and we never contact them again on any channel - You never claim to be from, affiliated with, or partnered with Google. We find businesses on public Google listings; we are not Google. Misrepresenting this ends the contract same-day. - You never invent facts about the business or promise results we haven't promised PAY Base hourly via the Upwork time tracker (rate is on this posting), plus a bonus for every owner who actually views their site as a result of your call — our system attributes that back to you automatically — plus a larger bonus for every one who becomes a paying customer. Exact bonus amounts are shared upfront before you take a single call. Good callers earn well above base here. TO APPLY 1. Start your proposal with the word GRAPEFRUIT so we know you read this. 2. Tell us in 3-4 sentences about a time you called a small business owner and it went well. Not a script — what you actually said. 3. Attach or link a 60-second voice recording of yourself reading this out loud, as if you were really on the phone. Use any company name you like where it's bracketed — we'll give you ours later: "Hi, this is [your name] calling from [company name] I'm following up on a postcard we mailed over to [Rivera's Auto Repair] last week. We actually went ahead and built you a website, and I just wanted to make sure it didn't end up in the junk mail pile." 4. Then, in the SAME recording, answer this off the cuff, in your own words: the owner says "I'm not interested, I already have a website." What do you say? Applications without the voice recording will not be reviewed.